Radio One star Nick Grimshaw says he’s "excited" to come to Swansea with two of the world’s biggest music acts.

He said he’d been trying to keep it all secret and not give the game away on the radio since finding out at Christmas they were coming to the city.

When he could finally announce the news this morning on the Breakfast Show, he said the texts went "crazy".

“Oh my god. Absolutely crazy. The texts today, well I’ve not seen it like that for years, it was crazy,” he said.

“We got to announce it, but also we gave a prize as well which was tickets to go to the biggest weekend and have a meet and greet with Ed Sheeran.

"After that the texts just went off. No texts for the next three hours made sense, because it was just people screaming in hysteria.

"It was really exciting this morning.”

However, this year, with Radio 1 announcing its Biggest Weekend, a festival spread over four cities, it seems as though Swansea has pulled the lucky straw with the biggest acts of the line-up announced so far - Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift performing at the event in Singleton Park on Saturday, May 26, and Sunday, May 27.

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“We just wanted to come to Swansea, we’ve never been there. We always want to go somewhere different every year and we want to try and get around as much of the UK as possible. We thought we should bring two of the biggest pop stars in the world to Swansea.”

Other venues around the UK include Belfast, Perth and Coventry and have acts lined up such as; Snow Patrol, Beck, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and the Manic Street Preachers.

Nick said: “The rest of the acts should be announced, I think next week on my show.

"The line up is amazing. I’ve been told that it’s our best line up ever.”

Whilst Swansea is playing host to Radio 1, Radio 1Xtra and Asian Network.

Perth and Coventry are both hosting Radio 2 and 3 and Belfast is welcoming the more alternative music scene of Radio 6 Music.

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“This is a BBC Music event rather than just a Radio 1 event. It’s going to be huge. It’s four sites, four different nations, across four days and there's going to be 175,000 tickets available,” said Nick.

But it won’t just be Mr Grimshaw heading over the bridge to Swansea in May, he will be joined by his colleagues at the radio station.

“It’s great when we have the big weekend, because we all get to get together and see these great bands.

“Usually, we’re like passing ships in the night.”

BBC Music's The Biggest Weekend is being held in Swansea (Image: PA)

He said he first knew about the Biggest Weekend being in Swansea around Christmas time.

“When I know I can’t talk about something on the radio, I try and block it out of my brain.

"I knew Ed and Taylor were doing it, but it’s quite a hard secret to keep when you are talking about it and you can’t say when it is, where it is or who’s playing. I’m happy I can talk about it now and not have to keep any more secrets.”

He has been lucky enough to have come to Swansea before, but only very briefly DJing. He now hopes to see more of the city.

Following the announcement, Ed Sheeran told the BBC: “[I’m] so excited to be part of The Biggest Weekend this summer.

"I’ve always loved performing at Big Weekend with Radio 1 and this year it’s going to be even bigger. Bring it on Swansea.”

There will be extensive TV coverage on BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Four and sets will be available on BBC iPlayer, mobile and online.

The scale of coverage will replicate that of Glastonbury festival on the BBC, which is in it’s fallow year this year, taking a break from being held.

Tickets for The Biggest Weekend go on sale on Monday, February 12, priced at £18 plus £4.50 booking fee, per day. The booking process will be handled by Ticketmaster - the only official ticketing agent for The Biggest Weekend.

There are over 175,000 tickets available to the public and tickets will be geographically weighted with a percentage available to each of the local areas.